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The Civil Code of the Russian Federation and Internationalagreements The Civil Code of the Russian Federation and InternationalAgreements Mikhail G. Rozenberg" This article describes the nature, status, and op- Cet article d6crit la nature, le statut et eration of international agreements under the aegis of l'application des accords internationaux sous l'6gide the laws of Russia in general, and under the Civil Code des lois de Russie en gcn6ral et du Code civil de la Fd- of the Russian Federation in particular. Attention is ddration russe en particulier. L'auteur porte particuli6- given to the means of enforcement of international rement attention aux moyens d'execution des accords agreements, their sphere of application, and their inter- intemationaux, a leur sph&e d'application, ainsi qu'.1 action with domestic legislation. In terms of this inter- l'interaction qu'ils ont avec la 16gislation domestique. action, the author considers the operation of domestic Quant A cette interaction, 'auteur contemple Russian legislation in the absence of international l'application de la 16gislation domestique en ]'absence agreements, the relative priority in Russia of rules in d'accords internationaux, l'importance relative, en international agreements, and the relative authority of Russie, des rgles 6labores dans les accords intema- the rules in international agreements as well as in the tionaux, ainsi que l'autorit6 relative des rigles 6labo- domestic legislation of the Russian Federation. r6es dans les accords intemationaux et dans la lhgisla- tion domestique de la F~d~ration russe. Professor of Law, Russian Academy of Foreign Trade (Moscow). © McGill Law Journal 1999 Revue de droit de McGill 1999 To be cited as: (1999) 44 McGill L.J. 473 Mode de rf~rence: (1999) 44 R.D. McGill 473 MCGILL LAW JOURNAL / REVUE DE DROITDE MCGILL [Vol.44 I. Definition of an International Agreement in Russian Law If. Machinery for the Enforcement of International Agreements in the Russian Federation Ill. Sphere of Application of International Agreements A. Purely International Relations B. International and Domestic Relations IV. International Agreements and Private International Law V Application of the Civil Code of the Russian Federationin Lieu of an International Agreement and as a Subsidiary Statute VI. Priority of Rules in International Agreements VII. Autonomous Nature of International Agreements Within the Rus- sian Federation's Legal System and Enforcement Practices VIII. Correlation of International Agreements IX. Reflection in the Civil Legislation of the Russian Federation of Provisions Sealed in International Agreements Conclusion References 1999] M.G. ROZENBERG - THE C.C.R.F & INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS 475 !. Definition of an International Agreement in Russian Law The term "international agreement of the Russian Federation" is defined as an international agreement in writing entered into by the Russian Federation with one or more foreign countries, or with an international organization. Such an agreement is regulated by international law, regardless of whether it is contained in one document or in several related documents. This definition follows the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties,' and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties Between States and InternationalOrganizations or Between InternationalOrganizations! The Russian Federation's international agreements are concluded with foreign countries as well as with international organizations on behalf of the Russian Federa- tion (inter-state agreements), the Government of the Russian Federation (inter- governmental agreements), and federal executive authorities (inter-departmental agreements). The Russian Federation is party to a substantial number of international agreements governing civil law relations. These include, inter alia, agreements on contracts for the international sale and carriage of goods,' as well as agreements on intellectual and industrial property." The U.S.S.R. and the Russian Federation took part in the development of a number of other international agreements which have yet to be ratified by the Russian Federation '23 May 1969, 1155 U.N.T.S. 331. 221 March 1986, 25 I.L.M. 543. This treaty has yet to be ratified by the Russian Federation. ' See e.g. the United Nations Convention on Contractsfor the InternationalSale of Goods, 11 April 1980, 1489 U.N.T.S. 3 [hereinafter 1980 Vienna Convention]; the Convention Providing a Uniform Lawfor Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes, 7 June 1930, 143 L.N.T.S. 257 [hereinafter 1930 Geneva Convention]; the Convention on the Contractfor the InternationalCarriage of Goods by Road, 19 May 1956, 399 U.N.T.S. 189; and the Conventionfor the Unification of Certain Rules Re- lating to InternationalCarriage by Air, 12 October 1929,261 U.N.T.S. 423 [hereinafter 1929 Warsaw Convention]. 4 See e.g. the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, 20 March 1883, 74 U.K.F.S. 44 [hereinafter 1883 Paris Convention]; the Universal Copyright Convention, 6 September 1952, 216 U.N.T.S. 132; the Berne Conventionfor the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, 24 July 1971, 1161 U.N.T.S. 3 (as revised in 1971) [hereinafter 1971 Berne Convention]; the Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phono- grams, 29 October 1971, 866 U.N.T.S. 67 [hereinafter 1971 Geneva Convention] and the Madrid Agreement Concerning the InternationalRegistration of Trademarks, 14 July 1967, 828 U.N.T.S. 389 (as revised in 1971). - These include, for instance, the Convention on the Limitation Period in the InternationalSale of Goods, 14 June 1974, 1511 U.N.T.S. 3 [hereinafter 1974 New York Convention]; the United Nations Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes, 9 December 1988, 28 I.L.M. 170 [hereinafter 1988 New York Convention]; the United Nations Convention on In- dependent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit, UN GAOR, 50th Sess., UN Doc. A/50/640 (1987) [hereinafter 1987 Guarantees];the UNIDROIT Convention on InternationalFinancial Leas- ing, 28 May 1988, 27 I.L.M. 931 [hereinafter 1988 FinancialLeasing]; the UNIDROIT Convention on InternationalFactoring, 28 May 1988, 27 I.L.M. 943 [hereinafter 1988 Factoring];and the Con- MCGILL LAW JOURNAL / REVUE DE DROIT DE MCGILL [Vol.44 II. Machinery for the Enforcement of International Agreements in the Russian Federation Pursuant to article 7(2) of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation,'international agreements concluded by the Russian Federation apply directly to civil law rela- tions-except where the agreement requires the issuance of a domestic act in order to apply. When such a domestic act is published, it applies concurrently with the inter- national agreement it has been adopted to implement. One example of the direct ap- plication of an international agreement to civil law relations is the 1980 Vienna Con- vention.' In contrast, arrangements relating to bills of exchange and promissory notes in the territory of the Russian Federation are regulated by federal laws, which were brought into force in the U.S.S.R. in accordance with the 1930 Geneva Convention' provisions concerning uniform laws for bills of exchange and promissory notes. Some international agreements expressly stipulate the issuance of domestic state acts on specific matters. Articles 10 and 11 of the 1883 Paris Convention,' for example, do just that. The Russian Federation can temporarily apply an international agreement-in full or in part-before the agreement goes into force if this is envisaged by the agreement or if it has been agreed upon by its signatories. A decision to enact such provisional enforcement is made by the same authorities in the Russian Federation who decided to sign the international agreement. Due to this, there appear to be no grounds for the occasionally recurring view that judicial authorities in the Russian Federation may, when resolving disputes, invoke ineffective international agreements as representing international custom. Those international agreements that have taken effect in the Russian Federation and whose binding nature has been recognized in federal laws are subject to official publication in the collections of Russian national legislation. As with other interna- tional agreements-with the exception of inter-departmental accords-they are also published in the Russian-language "Bulletin of International Agreements." Inter- departmental international agreements, for their part, are published in official periodi- cals of the executive authorities in whose name they were concluded. Article 15(3) of the Constitution of the Russian Federationdecrees that no regu- latory legal acts affecting any rights, freedoms, and duties of individuals and citizens may apply unless officially published for general knowledge. Resolution No. 8 of the vention on the Law Applicable to Contractsfor the InternationalSale of Goods, 30 October 1986, 24 I.L.M. 1573 [hereinafter 1986 Geneva Convention]. 6Part 1 was enacted in 1994: Sobranie zakonodatelstvaR.E (1994) No. 32, item 3301; and Part 2 was enacted in 1995: Sobranie zakonodatelstva R.E (1996) No. 5, item 410 [hereinafter C.C.R.R]. For the English-language translation, see RB. Maggs & A.N. Zhiltsov, eds., The Civil Code of the Russian Federation,trans. RB. Maggs & A.N. Zhiltsov (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1997). 'Supra note 3. 'Ibid. 9Supra note 4. 1999] M.G. ROZENBERG- THE C.C.R.F & INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS 477 Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation expressly stipulates that un- der this constitutional provision,
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